CaseFireball2002
Austin, TX, USA
There was no smoke or trailing from the fireball so it wasn't a rocket or metor.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (80 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2002-10-30
- Where
- Austin, TX, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- :05
- Geo
- 30.267, -97.743 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-austin-tx-2002-61cf87
Local cluster
Local cluster
October 2002 was a busy month for Austin, TX: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 327 reports logged in Austin, TX.
- This case is one of 176 Texas reports filed in 2002.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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